Anker Bandian (Continued)

It even seemed as though a giant hand was silently manipulating everything. Perhaps that was the true master.

Ahem, that was getting off track. After a long journey, Hinata and the others finally arrived at the village where Yuliu lived.

As they reached the outskirts of the village, mist gradually began to rise around them.

Through the thin mist, the distant village was already visible.

Quiet. The village was absolutely quiet at this moment.

There was hardly any sign of human activity.

Hinata consciously activated her Byakugan and thoroughly scanned the surroundings. Though she had noticed something, she had no intention of mentioning it.

She merely said, "Quiet. Very quiet. I didn't find a single person in the village."

When Hinata used her Byakugan, Shinnō looked at her with a faintly peculiar expression. Only after she had briefly scanned the area did he immediately return to his previous demeanor.

He said, "Could you have seen it wrong?"

Sakura immediately replied, "Under normal circumstances, the Byakugan can't be wrong."

That was already a very tactful way of putting it. If not for Ranmaru's earlier example, Sakura would definitely have said that Hinata's Byakugan could never be mistaken.

Still, Sakura did not believe their luck could be so terrible that they would happen to encounter a method capable of countering Hinata's Byakugan during an ordinary mission.

Sakura continued, "The most likely possibility is that they've already retreated."

"But we still don't know what happened, so I think it would be best to enter the village and investigate."

No one objected to that. Instead, they all agreed.

Since they had already determined that there did not seem to be any immediate problem, they decided to split up and act separately.

There were five of them in total, but because Hinata possessed the Byakugan,